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Waking up to the tragic truth of the constant mass shootings that have now been woven into the fabric of our fear filled daily lives has become utterly intolerable. Too many cities and their victims from the past ten years alone are too incomprehensive to properly honor in their sacrifices to mention here. The anger filled angst, fear, frustration, and disillusionment that has become the new emotional "constant" in our country is absolutely unfathomable. Not to mention disgraceful, and filled with a hate mongering that has not only torn, but completely RIPPED the fabric that our forefathers fought and sacrificed their own lives to cement as a legacy to leave behind. All to be shared with every generation of precious SOUL's to ever grace this planet; long after they had transitioned back to pure LOVE!
Prior to today, I have completely refrained in using my blog's pulpit and growing audience as a way to influence any political based discourse on the "State of the Nation." Why?! Because the core intention of my writings the past four years has been to UNIFY, INSPIRE, ENLIGHTEN, and offer a sanctuary for anyone seeking a safe haven to call home. Free from the vitriol that often accompanies political discourse in this Country. Well, that ends with this very post...............................
While watching the Washington, D.C. based Sunday morning staple this early afternoon, "Meet the Press" with anchor Chuck Todd, a member of President Trump's cabinet, Chief of Staff , Mick Mulvaney (I guess Trump was too busy Tweeting to 'Face The Camera's HimSELF') fielded questions from Todd regarding the two, back to back mass shootings in Ohio and Texas leaving 29 dead over the weekend. And do you know what his continued "canned" and sickening response became after fifteen minutes of political discourse between the two?!
"There are too many 'CRAZY' people in this country! Our number one priority is to make sure we have proper checks on all the CRAZY people in the United States!"
Are you FU*&ING kidding me?! As one of the 50 million people in the United States who suffers from some form of mental health malady, I found his comments to be based on utter fear mongering and damaging to the mental health STIGMA that so many of us are still fighting to overcome!
And yet, while former President Barack Obama was openly fielding questions in front of a podium to help soothe our combined collective conscious pain, our current President, as per usual, was too busy tweeting to be visibly seen.
While concrete facts on the separate massacres continue to pour in, what we can ascertain as truth is the following. This is the 21st mass killing in the United States this year alone. Truly difficult to try and digest!
I love National Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker's (D-NJ) take on these recent attacks on our nation's morality and invasion, eradicating our basic rights to safety!
"I would like to speak on moral clarity right now. Because I worry that we will forget that we are all responsible for each other in this country. The moral bonds and fabric in our country. We have a President of the United States who is particularly responsible. I have this idea that you reap what you sow. And he is sowing seeds of hatred in our country. And this harvest of hate violence lies at his feet. Especially when you have a President from the highest moral values of our land, talking about invasions and infestations and shit hole cities (Baltimore) that are nothing but rat infested!"
I'll have all my New Age Nerd compadres know that I lived just outside of Baltimore City, from 2015-2016. And in full disclosure, I purchased a rent to own petrified brick home built in 1857. I later learned it was the political home base of many of this country's greatest grass root political speeches of the last 200 years! (And yes, I have the tattered and torn pictures to prove it! lol) Just ask if you want to see them!! They are pretty frickin' awesome! ;0)
The very first week that my girlfriend at the time and I moved into this seemingly fortified townhouse, we were apprehensively awakened at 7:00 AM in the morning to a car that crashed directly into the right corner of our new home! BOOM! POW!
I was busy showering and shaving for my long, hour long trek into Washington D.C., where my daily based Time Media office awaited me. Understandably, I threw bodily caution to the wind and ran down stairs with great fear and a deep desire of uncovering the root cause of the bombastic noise!
A young African American man was trying to escape his motored safe haven, having stolen said vehicle after a city wide chase by the Baltimore City Police. From the kitchen's window, I could see this scared young man spring from his stolen vehicle to highjack away from the City police who were giving close chase!
Before I could throw on the proper attire to assist in giving chase to this young man, I noticed that the car he had crashed into our home was just inches away from the local gas line that diligently made its way up our private driveway! Seriously, the car was teetering and tottering less than six inches away from a potential block long explosion that would have wiped out the lives of me, my girlfriend, and newly rescued pup Maya! No joke..... Holy Smokes, right?! I still believe that it was a sign that my work here on Earth is not yet done!
The proper authorities, after a long chase through our back yard, 12 mile creek, finally apprehended him. And I mention this only to shed light on the fact that this young man was desperately poor. Not "CRAZY," as our own administration would have us believe as a way to circumvent taking any responsibility for the lack of opportunity that is a way of life for millions of fellow Americans! In fact, we later found a hand written note floating in our brittle river that had fallen out of his pocket while giving chase to authorities. It was from his mother. She eloquently wrote in this personal note that her son needed desperate help. He had found only abandonment in his short life. And was seeking some form of spiritual direction as a balm to serve as a way to heal his shattered and broken heart! There hasn't been ONE DAY that I haven't thought about that note during the past four years! Because, while this young man's actions deserved the repercussions that derived them, to this day, I feel it is the system that let him down. As a spiritual teacher, I spread the message that nobody can make a mistake. A MISSTEP, absolutely! But we all navigate life with the comprehensive set of experiences that we have accumulated at any given point in time. And we base our actions accordingly.
And that is another reason why I believe our current head of Administration is simply spreading poison, hate, and fear amongst the collective consciousness. Divisiveness that rather than creating a singular point of understanding, is spewing a vitriolic space of disconnection that continues to cause us to fall under the veil of evil, egoic illusion.
Who amongst you are aware that just last week, President Trump tweeted the following: "Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Baltimore) has been a brutal bully. And our great African American President (Barack Obama) hasn't exactly had a positive influence on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore."
"Baltimore is a rat and rodent infested mess." Yet, so few are aware of another of Trump's sickening secrets. His son-in law, Jared Kushner, happens to own a great portion of Baltimore's Inner City housing projects!
Jared Kushner's familial real estate firm owns thousands of apartments and townhomes in the Baltimore area, and most have been criticized for the same kind of disrepair and neglect that the president has accused local leaders of failing to address. Residents have complained about mold, bedbugs, leaks and, yes, mice - plenty of mice. And they say management appears in no hurry to fix the problems.
"They don't care," says Dezmond James, who says he has spotted as many as three mice a week since he moved in to the Commons at White Marsh in suburban Middle River four years ago.
James says he sees a massive contradiction in Trump's much-publicized tweets laying the blame for Baltimore's poverty, crime and rodent problems on frequent antagonist Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings. Trump, he said, should look more at what he - and specifically Kushner - could do about it.
"His son-in-law owns all of this - then he can fix it. I'm pretty sure he has a lot of money," says James, who is studying to be a medical assistant. "That's kind of weird that you want to talk trash. ... If you want to make improvements, you can make improvements."
Conditions got so bad two years ago that the Baltimore County government issued a release showing the Kushner Cos. had violated housing codes more than 200 times in just 10 months and only moved to fix the problems after being threatened with fines.
"I had black mold in my cabinets. I called them, I called them, I called them. And they never did anything," says Simone Ryer who moved out of Whispering Woods in Middle River two years ago. "That was more than enough for me to leave."
In a statement, the Kushner Co. said it was proud of its Baltimore-area apartments and has worked to maintain a "high quality residential experience for our tenants" by investing "substantial amounts" in upkeep.
Let me ask you? Have you ever found yourSELF to be so hungry that the excrutiatingly deflection of moral ambiguity would allow you to take (hopefully, peacefully) the very basic necessities to secure the survival of you and your family?! Seriously?! Because one out of every three Americans are faced with that very dilemma each and every day! Sobering, and hopefully both an internal and external talking point for you and your closest tribe members!
Allow me to let you peer into the existential secrets about our great county, The United States of America! While guaranteed "Health Care" is a basic building block and promise of most every other developed country in the World, the one exception excluded from this necessity is the United States! And I should know. During the past five years, I have racked up over $25 K in unpaid health care bills!! During which times I have been tasked with the following two decisions. Have the life saving surgeries and medicines my body required or die! That simple! Easy decision, right?! While I have the financial fortitude to pay back my debtors, most of those in my exact position DO NOT!
Too many of us are living in poverty when the truth is, if the top 2% of this world's richest individuals gave just 10% of their net worth away, there would NEVER be another person who goes to bed hungry ever again. There is no reason for the state and condition that this world resonates within! NONE. We have all the resources and abundance to take care of everyone on the planet. Yet did you know that 30% of this planet has NO IDEA how they are going to get food or water on a daily basis!! Sickening......... And I'll have to leave the discourse on the potential of Global Climate Change for another time!!
Too many of us live in a bubble. Our inner monologue being “What can I do to change things?” and then simply go about with our day. Well I have come up with a list of things that we can ALL do to assist others in Re-memering Who They Truly Are. And that is unique and perfect emanations of Godliness and Divine Source and Spirit. Utter perfection! Beautiful and magnificent in the most individual of ways!
So here are some suggestions from the New Age Nerd Manifesto of how we can begin to truly become the HEROES for ourselves and one another that this world so desperately needs. And pronto! Tenets that are the antithesis of everything the Trump Administration stands for...............
A New Age Nerd knows we are all Spiritual beings having a Human experience.
He acknowledges the true power of his words, and thus chooses them with care, intention, and kindness. And shares loving compliments of acknowledgement with abundant grace.
A New Age Nerd strives to ‘practice what they preach’, for they know that a spiritual vocabulary without action becomes No Thing more than Spiritual Entertainment.
She has the deep understanding that Energy is finite, so she does not waste hers on things she cannot control.
He knows separation is an illusion.. and that WE ARE ALL ONE.
A New Age Nerd does not confuse kindness... With weakness EVER!
He understands that every soul has a purpose.. And makes it his mission to Rock This World on his Hero's Journey. And help others Re-member what their purpose is!
She accepts that the one thing she has full control over is who she associates with .. As it will be the greatest determining factor of her happiness and success. So she picks her TRIBE with a WICKED WISDOM.
The opinions of others have little effect on a New Age Nerd, for they know they only have to PROVE things to themselves.
A New Age Nerd understands the difference between Success and SIGNIFICANCE. So they are always looking to bring more value into the world.
He believes the greatest gift we have been given is the PRESENT.
So his favorite motto is BE HERE NOW.
She is a ‘SOULdier’ for LOVE. A fierce Connoisseur of Consciousness. A Ravishing Rock Star of Spirit. And a Steward of Remembrance. So she reminds others that they are too.
A New Age Nerd understands that they may be the only bible/torah/koran that someone will ever read. Thus they hold each and every Co-creation as SACRED. And treat one another with respect , acknowledgment and kindness, always and in ALL WAYS.
He strives to be worthy of his sufferings. For his definition of a ‘Sin’ is to suffer without meaning.
He strives to be worthy of his sufferings. For his definition of a ‘Sin’ is to suffer without meaning.
She takes RESPONSIBILITY for her actions. No complaining, no explaining.
A New Age Nerd commits daily to become ‘The Greatest Version of The Grandest Vision’ ever held of themselves. In this way, they worry not about being better than others, but rather BEING better than they used to be.
She knows surrendering is the highest form of ALLOWANCE. So she surrenders her Spirit to the Universe often, as not to block the Abundance always waiting for her highest good.
A New Age Nerd has a fervent FAITH that everything and anything other than LOVE, is simply an ILLUSION.
BE SUPER HEROIC!!
Nerdmaste,
Jeffrey Louis Martinez
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